What's a good book focusing on the daily lives of the Ancient Egyptians ? All reccomendations will be appraciated... Thankyou!_________________It is of course the hieght of irony that, after this intensive campaign to expunge them from the annals of Egypt, the Amarna pharaohs are today probably the most recognized of all the country's ancient rulers!

________. 1999a. Archaeologies of Life and Death. American Journal of Archaeology 103: 181-199.

________. 2002. Private Life in the New Kingdom. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Meyer, R. 1999. The Determination of Collective Guilt and the Interpretation of National Suffering in Late Egyptian Theology. In J. Assmann and G. G. Stroumsa, Eds., Transformations of the Inner Self in Ancient Religions: 245-262. Studies in the History of Religions (Numen Book Series) Vol. LXXXXIII. Leiden: Brill.

O'Connor, D. 1998. The City and the World: Worldview and Built Forms in the Reign of Amenhotep III. In D. O'Connor and E. H. Cline, Eds., Amenhotep III: Perspectives on His Reign: 125-172. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

________. 1996. Dress, Undress, and the Representation of Fertility and Potency in New Kingdom Egyptian Art. In N. B. Kampen, et al., Eds., Sexuality in Ancient Art: Near East. Egypt, Greece and Italy: 27-40. Cambridge Studies in New Art History and Criticism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Roth, A. M. 1991. Egyptian Phyles in the Old Kingdom: The Evolution of a System of Social Organization. Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization (SAOC) 48. Chicago: Oriental Institute.

Saretta, P. 1997. Egyptian Perceptions of West Semites in Art and Literature during the Middle Kingdom (An Archaeological, Art Historical and Textual Survey). Ph.D. Dissertation (Unpublished). Dept. of Near Eastern Languages and Literatures. New York University.

Stevens, A. 2003. The Material Evidence for Domestic Religion at Amarna and Preliminary Remarks on its Interpretation. JEA 89: 143-168.

Stillwell, G. A. 2000. Conduct and Behavior as Determinants for the Afterlife: A Comparison of the Judgments of the Dead in Ancient Egypt and Ancient Greece. Ph. D. Dissertation (Unpublished). College of Arts and Sciences. Florida State University.

One I found particularly interesting was Kasia Szpakowska's Daily Life in Ancient Egypt. A lot of 'daily life' books focus on the New Kingdom (especially the tomb-builders' village) and the Late Period, but this is a good one focusing primarily on a Middle Kingdom site.